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Welcome!

Welcome to the Libraries' ENGL 310 Class Guide! This guide is designed to help you learn how to use K-State Libraries' many resources. If this guide does not have the information you are looking for, don't hesitate to Ask A Librarian for help any time during the Libraries' service hours.

This handout describes how to start a search in order to explore a topic and start a bibliography. Adapted from a Gustavus Adolphus Library handout, it is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Publication Dates Covered: 1926 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
This is the largest and most comprehensive database for literary criticism in all languages. Also covers folklore, linguistics, and film studies. Includes journal and book articles, books, and dissertations. Does not index book reviews in literary journals.

Publication Dates Covered: 1920 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature includes scholarly articles, books, and reviews pertaining to the English Language. First published in 1920 and maintained to the present date, it covers subject topics of drama, poetry, fiction, biography, literary theory, film, onomastics, lexicography, and dialectology. This product ideally complements the MLA Bibliography.

Paid for by K-State Libraries
A full-text collection of more than 550 core journals ranging from history to business to literature to science and mathematics. Coverage begins with the first issue of a title, but the most recent three to five years of each title are usually not available. The full article text is searchable.

Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides a combined search for Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch History which feature newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic and minority presses; GenderWatch which features historical and current perspectives of gender roles; and Alt-Press Watch which showcases some of the nation’s most respected and cited grassroots publications. Searches can be narrowed to peer-reviewed publications.

Search It enables simultaneous searching of information about K-State Libraries' physical and online collections and about articles and other sources from hundreds of databases, journal publishers, and organizations.

Simultaneous users: 25 Paid for by K-State Libraries
Provides information about books, serials, videos, and other items cataloged by libraries around the world, including K-State. Each of the more than 57 million records contains information regarding which libraries hold the item. Click on the item title to access the Get It link.

Developing Keywords for Your Topic

Brainstorm a list of keywords before you even start researching. You will use these keywords as search terms in databases, keyword searches in texts, and to navigate the index to books.

To do so, ask yourself two questions:

1. What do I know about my topic?

2. What do I want to know about my topic?

List out the answers to those questions using single words or simple phrases. These will become your keywords.

The author or the title of the work you're researching are often your initial keywords.

Add terms describing your specific area of interest--including which lens or angle you might be using to research and analyze the literature.

As you learn more through your research, add to your list of keywords.

Understand Peer-Reviewed Articles

Contact Sara K.

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Either JavaScript is disabled in your browser or our chat service is unavailable. For chat hours see Hale Library's calendar. If you like, you can leave us a message at 785-532-3014 or e-mail your question to <a "mailto:libhelp@k-state.edu"=""> libhelp@k-state.edu.

Get It

Get It is a service that checks to see if we have access to the full text of the article you are looking for.

The button helps you access the full text of articles.

When the Get It button shows up next to an article you want, click on it. If we have access to the full text you will see a linked tab that says "View It." Just follow the trail to get to the article.

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan allows you to get books or media that K-State does not have. Requests go out to other libraries.